Month: May 2011
Mindfulness Meditation May Cut IBS Symptoms
Lung scans may lead to overdiagnosis: study
Significant Number of Medicare Patients Getting Too-Frequent Colonoscopies
Study: Many elderly get colon screening too often
(5 stars)
Just a bit better than the competing Wall Street Journal health blog story because AP discussed costs and mentioned what some of the harms are.
Excessive BP response and low fitness among US firefighters
New York, NY – Firefighters who experience an excessive blood-pressure response to exercise tend to be less fit than firefighters who have a normal blood-pressure response, and this might explain some of the increased risk of cardiovascular disease …
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Unique massage therapy may help people with fibromyalgia, book author says.
| But research shows that exercise can make patients feel better and improve their quality of life. Dr. Ginevra Liptan, an authority on the disorder at the Oregon Health Sciences Center, has conducted research on how a type of massage therapy of the … See all stories on this topic » |
 Los Angeles Times |
Firefighters get live training experience with controlled burning exercise
The joint training exercise was completed by 36 firefighters, mostly volunteer, from Wooster Township, South Central and East Union Fire Districts. The exercise, which lasted from about 8 am to noon, focused on basic initial attack evolutions, …
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Biggest Loser(R) Contestants Lose Over 1000 lbs at Home While on The Biggest …
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — (Marketwire) — 05/23/11 — eDiets.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIET) — On The Biggest Loser Ranch, contestants have personal trainers, doctors, nutritional experts and healthy food at their fingertips. However, the transition from the …
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Coming up this week: Dr. Oz Show
| Dr. Oz is revealing his defy your age diet: weight loss for every decade. He will explain the major scentific changes that your body faces during each decade and then will show a "defy your age" diet that adjusts for those changes. … See all stories on this topic » |
 My Fox Boston |
Five Things: Boston SWAT Team Photos
Boston SWAT teams members comb the Boston Marine Industrial Park during a training exercise to prepare the unit in case of a terrorist attack. Courtney Sacco 1. Cloudy skies with a 40 percent chance of showers today. Temperatures in the lower 60s and …
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New GI workouts mimic stress of battlefield
| At 47, Troxell wants to help younger soldiers prevent battlefield and training injuries by getting them used to the short bursts of intense exercise that characterize a deployment. The Army in recent years has shifted away from traditional 5-mile runs … See all stories on this topic » |
 Bellingham Herald |